This weekend in New Mexico is balloon fiesta and green chile season. And yes, it's a great reason to miss 3 days of school. I was born in Albuqurque, so it's also great visting my home land. I love how wild it is here; it's like you stepped into a time machine and went back 20 years. I have spent my days watching hot air balloons fill the sky and stuffing myself with green chiles (which are so good. we even brought a extra suitcase for taking home some roasted green chiles. hopefully its legal...). New Mexico is full of galleries. I found so many artists that have inspired me. Many of them dont have websites because they are local. I went to the manitou gallery, chuck jones gallery, the Peterson-Cody gallery, Houshang gallery, Georgia O'Keeffe museum, corrales bosque gallery, and way to many more. Anyways. Our next project is just to do anything you want (quality of course). I really want to do more handbuilding, because i mostly just throw pottery. A local new mexican artist called Elaine Fein does these awesome layered plates. She raku fired them, but since i plan on eating off them, i will do some other firing. I really want to do some cone 10 firing, i dunno if amy will approve. Also Hib Sabin does these cool animal head out off wood. I want to hand build these out of clay and possibly make them into lids for some pots. I also want to work with more organic and free form shapes. The list of ideas goes on... Here's list of the artists (who do have websites, sadly most don't) below.
Hib Sabin- http://manitougalleries.com/artists/Hib_Sabin/1
Kent Kraus- http://www.kentkrausstudio.com/FullsizedSculptures.htm
Casey Hankin- http://www.caseyhankin.com/about.html
Andy Goldschmidt- http://web.mac.com/bdensford/Gallery_website/Andy_Goldschmidt.html
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